Hawaiian Community Assets, Inc.

Covid-19 Response

COVID-19 Response

The ultimate purpose is to leverage HCA's AmeriCorps VISTA project, secured funding, and existing partnerships with Native Hawaiian-controlled nonprofits and CDFIs to establish an integrated asset building system that will increase access to affordable housing for Native Hawaiians residing in urban Trust lands. Further, the project will create a Native Hawaiian Asset Building Coalition that will serve as a vehicle for democratic control of leveraged resources for the integrated asset building system and for increasing the professional skills of VISTA members as part of a multi-organization succession plan to prepare our next generation of Native Hawaiian economic development leaders.

The purpose of the Kahua Waiwai Alaka`i Internship Program is to 1) create and institutionalize a multi-generational internship opportunity, 2) increase youth interns financial knowledge and retention by providing them an opportunity to teach culturally relevant financial literacy, and 3) leverage community partnerships to bring youth, children, parents and community organizations together to further an open dialogue around economic self-sufficiency and personal finance in the native hawaiian community.